Another year has passed by, and here comes another chance for me to boast about my accomplishments. XD I think this was a pretty good writing year, except for NaNoWriMo. I was really disappointed with that, but I also have to think about what got done when it wasn't November. I was even writing chapters (two great ones) in summer while (surprise for everyone who doesn't know me personally) I was having some of the worst times with my dad and he was on the verge of moving out. Luckily, he did and the house became a very tranquil place for me to work afterward.

Anyway! It's tradition since last year not to go through goals I made in January in checklist fashion; only to write what I accomplished.

1.) I wrote something like 90-100 pages of He's There. I almost got halfway into Part 2. I also illustrated a little and really shaped out the rest of the plot in my head.

2.) I single-handedly, in a week and a half,  wrote a 41-page Adventures in Wonderland short story, called A Hatter's Obligation. It was absolutely adorable and really helped me explore some characters.

3.) I wrote a 10pg Adventures in Wonderland one-shot called That Time of Year. Much fun.

4.) I did 3 more chapters of Us Against the World?

5.) Most importantly, Kate and I wrote 90pgs of Crystal Palace 3 and finished it. Yesterday.

Okay, a little smaller list than last year; I didn't do any websites, but there's more writing.  ;)

2011 ASPIRATIONS


HE'S THERE
2011 really should be the last year of my work on this. :/ I conclude that thought with a less than happy emoticon because it's been my best friend for almost four years and it will be strange to move on from it. I know I've got 17 chapters to go, but I imagine it will begin to snowball. When it's done, I plan to take a little break and then start revising, hopefully with help of my readers and beta, and the Creative Writing department at my future university.


US AGAINST THE WORLD
I can honestly say I'm playing it cool this year since I'll be diving into my real education in film this year and probably will have a lot of school things to balance. Aside to He's There, I just wanna do my fanfictions, ya know? :) Have something light-hearted in my life. I won't give myself pressure to have UATW finished, as it's turned out to be a more complicated project than I thought, but I hope I return to it and fall in love with it again. It was so much fun. It's the only AIW thing that's just been put on hold and that's just not fair.

CRYSTAL PALACE 3
Really needs lots of lovely illustrations. Many of the ones I have on the community are from 2008. They're good, but I think I can do better, and so many of the later scenes have no drawings at all! I'm going to have to find out how I want to illustrate it though - if I want to play it safe with pencil lines and digital coloring or remain faithful to the fully Disney style I had in the beginning. It's just when I drew for it in the past, I was using a desktop computer with a reputable mouse. I haven't attempted digital lines on my laptop, even with a plug-in mouse, for surely a year or more.

CP3 also is destined for its own website. I almost considered not building one, seeing as hardly anyone has ever visited the one I made for CP2, but then I remembered that it's little to do with that. I simply love to make websites for my stories. Whoever comes every blue moon is in for a treat, and they are my portfolio. It might even be much more relevant when I get to university and have classes and teachers where my work would come up and I'd need a way to show them. SO YES, IN A NUTSHELL, CP3 WILL BE DESIGNED A WEBSITE. :D


On the side to those more important things, I've decided that post-He's There, Tilly & Jo will be my novel of choice. It was fighting for its chance against Wooden Light (which I may rename Unknown Color), but I remembered that WL/UC is a freaking AMBITIOUS project. If I thought HT was trouble, ohohohoho. WL would need so much more prep and I'm very emotionally invested. I thought I would like to feel a little less weight on my shoulders and T&J is definitely going to be a shorter story with less seriousness. SOOO....

TILLY & JO
When I've come far enough along with revising He's There, I'm going to enter this project at the very base. I'm developing the characters as if they were new (but don't worry, besides Gina, what you know of them will be retained). I'm actually going to spend a lot of time time-lining and filling out Tilly and Jo's lives. I even considered splitting the story into their three POV's, where I could pick who would be the most effective telling the story at that point. Now that I've got a feel for this whole novel-writing business, I want to show what I've learned and blow some socks off. After characters, I'll spend a while trying to understand why I'm telling this story instead of just heading off without direction. With HT, it was very clear what the conflict and message was, and with T&J, it isn't. I really can't guarantee even a chapter of this story will be done by December 31st, 2011, but it will have fleshed out.

CRYSTAL PALACE 4
I said last year I wasn't picky about what got done and I'm really not. Especially since I don't know how the series will continue. I didn't have a particularly sunshine-and-rainbows experience working with Kate on CP3 because of her noncommittal attitude and unreliability, but she takes interest, still. I've made known that I won't tolerate less than fair conduct as co-writers in the future. I really look forward to CP4, though. We have a rousing plot set up that features everyone dealing with trouble. It will be an interesting character study for Cosmo who I've always had a special place for but had little opportunity to write about.


That is going to be the end of the list. I'm open to plot-bunnies throughout the year and I hope I act on them. I also hope I finish the short story I began in November called Trying Tuesday. The holidays got in my way with that one, but it shall be done! Wooden Light is not on this list, and it won't be written for, but I hope too that I can expand on it a little.

And that is that. :)